Table 1.

Characteristics of all included patients

	Advanced disease (AD)	Late presentation (LP)	Non-late presentation (non-LP)
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	p-value
In total	1810	858	1051
HIV-type				<0.01
HIV-1	1329 (73.4)	608 (70.9)	650 (61.8)
HIV-2	262 (14.5)	144 (16.8)	260 (24.7)
HIV-1/2	185 (10.2)	94 (11.0)	110 (10.5)
Unknown	34 (1.9)	12 (1.4)	31 (3.0)
Sex				<0.01
Female	1134 (62.7)	571 (66.6)	773 (73.5)
Male	676 (37.3)	287 (33.4)	278 (26.5)
Age stratified				<0.01
Age ≤ 30 years	466 (25.8)	246 (28.7)	339 (32.2)
Age 30-49 years	1112 (61.4)	491 (57.2)	557 (53.0)
Age ≥ 50 years	221 (12.2)	117 (13.6)	152 (14.5)
Unknown	11 (0.6)	4 (0.5)	3 (0.3)
Marital status				<0.01
Married	1014 (56.0)	443 (51.6)	576 (54.8)
Divorced	118 (6.5)	36 (4.2)	67 (6.4)
Widowed	235 (13.0)	131 (15.3)	169 (16.1)
Single	414 (22.9)	236 (27.5)	221 (21.0)
Unknown	29 (1.6)	12 (1.4)	18 (1.7)
Ethnicity				<0.01
Balanta	268 (14.8)	168 (19.6)	209 (19.9)
Fula	363 (20.1)	152 (17.7)	192 (18.3)
Mandinga	189 (10.4)	78 (9.1)	72 (6.9)
Manjaco	130 (7.2)	67 (7.8)	84 (8.0)
Pepel	140 (7.7)	60 (7.0)	84 (8.0)
Mancanha	95 (5.3)	68 (7.9)	70 (6.7)
Other+	279 (15.4)	153 (17.8)	168 (16.0)
Unknown	346 (19.1)	112 (13.1)	172 (16.4)
Attended school++				0.42
Yes	1129 (62.4)	546 (63.4)	650 (61.9)
No	609 (33.7)	287 (33.5)	370 (35.2)
Unknown	72 (4.0)	25 (2.9)	31 (2.9)
Year of diagnosis				0.01
2007	126 (7.0)	42 (4.9)	46 (4.4)
2008	272 (15.0)	120 (14.0)	128 (12.2)
2009	348 (19.2)	151 (17.6)	186 (17.7)
2010	366 (20.2)	201 (23.4)	238 (22.7)
2011	283 (15.6)	162 (18.9)	207 (19.7)
2012	224 (12.4)	102 (11.9)	136 (12.9)
2013	191 (10.6)	80 (9.3)	110 (10.5)

⁺Other ethnicities: Beafada, Bijago, Caboverdeano, Felupe, Mansonca and mixed

⁺⁺Not including koranic school